Q&A: A Haredi Person on Big Brother
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A Haredi Person on Big Brother
Question
Good week, Rabbi,
Recently a Haredi young man entered the program "Big Brother." As part of the program, the house is filmed 24/7, and presumably the production staff also works on the Sabbath. Is it halakhically permitted to enter such a situation?
Best regards,
Answer
I don't know the details, but at first glance it seems not.
Discussion on Answer
- There is no saving here at all. Someone who doesn't eat kosher won't eat kosher at home either.
He is part of the team carrying out the Sabbath desecration and causing others to stumble. In addition, they are acting for him, and he is causing them to stumble. If it were another person, then it would be another person. When I hand wine to a nazirite from the other side of the river, simply speaking that is forbidden even if he can find someone else to do it. - What about it?
But:
1. In any case, Big Brother does this anyway; it's not that there will be more Sabbath desecration because of him.
2. If anything, the opposite—it's saving from the lion and the bear. For example, he is careful about kashrut and doesn't go around with a microphone on the Sabbath. So he would replace someone who would do that.
2. And what about causing a secular person to sin?